Meet the Weekend Division Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

What can you improve a excellent veteran squad that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have played at the top level of club football and global soccer as you aim for further trophies.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their active squad.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

The squad list this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite appearances.

The high-profile team also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at defender.

"That's a little different 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 continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a