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How do you enhance a excellent veteran team that have secured back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have competed at the top level of club football and global soccer as you pursue more trophies.

A Manchester side has an amateur vets team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

Their roster this season includes nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 elite appearances.

This high-profile team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

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

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a