Meet this Weekend Division Club With 1,800 English Top Division Appearances

What do you enhance a stellar experienced squad that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have played at the highest level of club football and global football as you target additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current roster.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a total 1,801 top-flight games.

This star-studded roster also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That movement is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

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

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

"The opponents 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 match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a