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What can you improve a stellar veteran squad that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a collection of former pro players that have performed at the highest level of club and international football as you aim for further honors.

One Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

This elite roster also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and watch are happy and to make a day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

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

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

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

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a