Discover the Sunday Division Club Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Matches

What do you enhance a excellent experienced side who have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have performed at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you pursue additional honors.

One Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Division.

Their lineup this campaign includes 9 former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This high-profile squad also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators 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 more like the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group literally have not 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 game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a