What can you boost a excellent experienced squad that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?
Bring in a collection of ex- pro players that have competed at the top tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for more silverware.
A Manchester club fields an amateur vets squad with nine former Premier League players in their current roster.
The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.
Their roster this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.
The star-studded team also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.
The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.
Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.
The team for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
Together, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.
Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.
Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.
"A friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.
"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!
"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?
"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."
Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at defender.
"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.
"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.
"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."
In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.
Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.
Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.
Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.
"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.
"I felt I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.
"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.
"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.
"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.
"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.
"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."
Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.
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