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How can you improve a outstanding veteran squad that have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players that have competed at the top level of club football and international football as you pursue further honors.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present roster.

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

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

The lineup this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

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

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a