How do you enhance a outstanding experienced team that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?
Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have competed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you pursue additional silverware.
One Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.
Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.
Their squad list this campaign features nine ex- Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.
The high-profile roster also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global caps.
The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.
Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.
The team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.
Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.
Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.
"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.
"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!
"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?
"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."
So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at full-back.
"It's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.
"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.
"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."
Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.
Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with three victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.
Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.
He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.
"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.
"I think I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.
"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.
"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.
"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.
"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.
"Now we can't wait for the second match."
The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division title last season, together with his co-manager.
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