Meet the Sunday Division Squad Featuring 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

How do you enhance a outstanding experienced squad who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of ex- pro players that have performed at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you target more honors.

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

The elite roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this summer through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a