Meet the Weekend League Squad With Over 1,800 Top-Flight Games

How can you boost a stellar experienced side that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players who have performed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you pursue more silverware.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their current squad.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season features nine former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and see are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a