Meet the Sunday Division Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Matches

What do you boost a excellent veteran squad who have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you pursue more trophies.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their current roster.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile team also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a