Meet this Weekend League Squad With 1,800 Premier League Matches

What do you improve a stellar experienced side that have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the top tier of club football and international soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their active squad.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

The lineup this season includes 9 former Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight games.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, 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 Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a