Discover the Sunday Division Squad With 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What do you enhance a outstanding experienced side who have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest level of club and international football as you pursue further silverware.

A Manchester club has an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

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

The roster this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight games.

The star-studded roster also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a