What can you enhance a stellar veteran squad who have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?
Recruit a collection of ex- professionals who have competed at the highest tier of club football and international football as you pursue more trophies.
One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight players in their current roster.
Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.
The squad list this campaign includes 9 former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.
This elite team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.
They include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.
Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.
The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
Collectively, the former Premier League players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.
Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.
Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.
"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.
"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!
"When you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?
"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."
Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.
"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.
"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.
"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."
In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.
The team are top of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a GD of +19.
Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.
Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.
"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.
"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.
"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd English appearances.
"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.
"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.
"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.
"Now we are eager for the return match."
Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.
"We scored 1-0 up and had a
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