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What do you improve a excellent veteran side who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for more silverware.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

Their roster this season boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 top-flight games.

This high-profile roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate 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 saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

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

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

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

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a