Discover the Sunday Division Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Matches

What can you boost a excellent veteran squad that have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have competed at the elite level of club football and global football as you pursue further honors.

A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

Their lineup this campaign includes nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The high-profile roster also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have won 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

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

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The fans who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a