Meet this Weekend Division Squad Boasting 1,800 Premier League Games

How do you boost a excellent experienced squad who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have played at the top tier of club football and international football as you pursue more trophies.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current squad.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The elite roster also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this season through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

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

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a