Discover this Sunday League Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Games

How can you improve a outstanding veteran team that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club and global football as you pursue additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former top-flight players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 top-flight appearances.

This high-profile squad also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"It'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.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

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

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a