Meet this Weekend League Team Featuring 1,800 Top-Flight Games

How can you improve a outstanding veteran squad that have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the top level of club and global football as you aim for further silverware.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

The roster this campaign features nine ex- top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a