Discover the Sunday League Team Boasting 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

How can you improve a excellent experienced side who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have performed at the elite tier of club and global football as you pursue more silverware.

One Greater Manchester side has an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The lineup this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

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

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

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go 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 continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a