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How can you boost a excellent veteran squad that have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite level of club and international football as you pursue further honors.

A Manchester team fields an non-professional vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

The squad list this season includes 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

The star-studded team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

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

Famous Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a