Introduce this Sunday League Squad With 1,800 Premier League Games

What do you improve a outstanding experienced team that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of former pro players who have played at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for further silverware.

One Greater Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

The roster this season boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded squad also includes over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

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

"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 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 turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a