Discover this Sunday Division Squad With 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What do you improve a stellar veteran squad who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a group of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite level of club and global football as you aim for additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester club has an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

Their lineup this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

The high-profile roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to make a day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a