Discover this Sunday League Squad With Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Matches

What do you improve a stellar veteran squad who have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of ex- professionals that have played at the highest level of club football and international football as you pursue more trophies.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The lineup this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

This high-profile squad also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

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

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a