Meet this Weekend Division Squad Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Games

What do you boost a outstanding experienced squad that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the top level of club and global football as you pursue more honors.

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

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite appearances.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a