Meet the Sunday League Team Featuring Over 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What can you improve a excellent veteran side that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of former pro players that have performed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you target more silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

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

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

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

The high-profile team also contains over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

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

"We went 1-0 up and had a