Meet this Weekend Division Club Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Games

What do you enhance a outstanding experienced squad that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of ex- pro players who have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for further silverware.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

Their squad list this season includes 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The elite squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a