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What do you boost a outstanding veteran team that have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for further silverware.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded roster also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

"We literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a