Meet this Sunday Division Club With 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

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

Bring in a group of ex- pro players that have performed at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded squad also includes 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

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

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have won fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we can't wait for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a