Meet this Weekend Division Squad Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Matches

How do you boost a outstanding veteran side who have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have played at the top tier of club football and global football as you target further honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

The lineup this season boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 big honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

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

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a