Meet the Sunday Division Squad Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Games

How can you boost a stellar experienced side that have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you pursue further silverware.

A Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight players in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and see are happy and to give a day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

"I felt I was a little starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a