Introduce the Sunday Division Squad With 1,800 Premier League Matches

What can you improve a stellar veteran squad who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have played at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you pursue more honors.

One Manchester team has an amateur veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This high-profile team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this season through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

"The movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil up and had a