Meet this Sunday League Team Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

How do you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club and international football as you pursue more trophies.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign includes nine former top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This elite team also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees 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 strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

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

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

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a