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What can you improve a outstanding veteran team who have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the top level of club football and global football as you pursue more silverware.

One Manchester team fields an non-professional vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their present roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

The roster this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The star-studded team also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"The running is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a