Meet this Weekend League Club With Over 1,800 Premier League Games

How can you boost a outstanding veteran side that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have performed at the elite level of club football and international football as you pursue more honors.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The lineup this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 top-flight games.

This high-profile team also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

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

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The people who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

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

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a