Discover this Weekend League Team Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

What can you improve a excellent veteran squad that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players that have played at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you target further honors.

A Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The squad list this season boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile squad also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I think 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 twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"They 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 return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a