Introduce this Sunday League Team With Over 1,800 Premier League Games

How can you improve a stellar experienced team who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals who have performed at the elite level of club and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The squad list this season boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded team also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool 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, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a