Introduce this Weekend Division Team With 1,800 Premier League Games

How can you boost a excellent experienced side that have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals that have played at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you aim for further trophies.

A Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight footballers in their current roster.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

The squad list this season includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

This star-studded roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen significant trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

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

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased chatting 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 facing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a