Discover the Sunday League Club With 1,800 Premier League Matches

What can you improve a excellent experienced squad that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the elite level of club football and global football as you pursue additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

The roster this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

The elite roster also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field match against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

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

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a