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How do you enhance a stellar veteran side that have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players who have played at the top tier of club football and global football as you target more honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their current lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their roster this campaign includes nine former top-flight players, with a total 1,801 Premier League games.

The elite team also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual 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 keep attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a