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What can you boost a outstanding veteran side that have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former professionals that have played at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you target additional trophies.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

The lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded roster also contains 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 major trophies and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"After that he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The movement is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a