Meet this Sunday League Club With Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How do you enhance a outstanding veteran team that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a group of former professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you pursue more silverware.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The roster this season features nine former Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 top-flight matches.

This elite roster also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this season also features former pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

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

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

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a