Discover the Sunday League Squad Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

What do you boost a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of ex- pro players that have played at the top level of club and international soccer as you aim for further silverware.

A Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their roster this campaign boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a