Discover the Sunday League Club Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

What can you enhance a stellar experienced side that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have played at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you target further honors.

One Manchester club has an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

The roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a