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What can you improve a outstanding experienced team who have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of ex- professionals who have competed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you target additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active roster.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

The squad list this campaign features 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile team also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a