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What do you enhance a outstanding veteran team who have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have played at the highest tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

One Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

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

Their lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

This star-studded squad also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home-field game against defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - 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 Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with three victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a