Meet the Sunday Division Squad Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Appearances

What do you boost a outstanding experienced team that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have performed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you target further trophies.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

This star-studded squad also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

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

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

"That running is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

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

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a