Discover the Sunday Division Club Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Games

What can you enhance a excellent experienced squad who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former professionals that have played at the elite tier of club football and global football as you pursue additional honors.

One Manchester team boasts an amateur vets squad with nine former Premier League players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The star-studded roster also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a