Introduce the Sunday Division Squad Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Appearances

What can you boost a excellent experienced side who have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals that have played at the top level of club football and global football as you target further honors.

A Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

Their squad list this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 top-flight matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a