Introduce the Sunday League Squad Boasting 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

What can you enhance a outstanding experienced squad who have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for additional trophies.

One Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

The roster this season includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite matches.

This high-profile squad also contains 222 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home game against defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

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

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

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got over 60 England caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a