Introduce the Weekend League Club Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Appearances

How do you enhance a outstanding experienced side who have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former professionals that have played at the highest level of club and international football as you target further silverware.

One Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The lineup this season features nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile roster also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a