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

How do you boost a outstanding veteran side who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have competed at the top tier of club football and international football as you pursue additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their current roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

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

Their roster this season boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 elite appearances.

The elite roster also includes over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Top Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a