Meet this Weekend Division Club Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Matches

How can you improve a outstanding experienced squad that have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have played at the elite level of club and international soccer as you target additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

The roster this campaign includes 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

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

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

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

"We scored 1-0 up and had a