Discover the Sunday League Team Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

What do you boost a stellar veteran team that have claimed consecutive titles, including a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have performed at the elite tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for further honors.

A Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The star-studded team also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a