Introduce the Sunday League Team Boasting 1,800 Top-Flight Matches

What do you enhance a outstanding veteran squad who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former professionals who have played at the top level of club football and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Manchester side fields an amateur vets squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

Their lineup this campaign features nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

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

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - 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 running.

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a