Meet this Weekend League Squad With 1,800 Top-Flight Matches

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

Bring in a raft of former pro players that have played at the highest tier of club and global football as you pursue more honors.

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

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

The squad list this campaign includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This high-profile roster also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a