Discover this Sunday League Team With Over 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

What do you enhance a stellar experienced side who have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have played at the elite level of club and international soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

One Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The lineup this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This elite team also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have won fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based 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 a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say 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 do?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a