Discover the Sunday Division Squad Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

How do you improve a excellent experienced team who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of former pro players that have performed at the top tier of club and international football as you target more honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

The roster this season boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded team also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor 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 two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a