Discover this Sunday League Team With Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

What can you improve a outstanding veteran side who have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite level of club and international football as you target more honors.

A Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have claimed 15 significant honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a