Meet the Weekend Division Club With 1,800 English Top Division Matches

How do you enhance a outstanding experienced team who have secured consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players that have competed at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for more honors.

One Greater Manchester team fields an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The elite team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a