Introduce the Sunday Division Team Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Games

What do you improve a excellent veteran squad who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players that have performed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

Their roster this season includes 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The high-profile roster also contains over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match versus reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have won fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

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

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"That movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a