What can you boost a stellar experienced squad that have secured consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?
Recruit a group of ex- pro players who have performed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you target more honors.
One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active squad.
Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.
The lineup this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.
The star-studded roster also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.
The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.
He made his debut for the team in their last home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.
Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
Together, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.
Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.
Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.
"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.
"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!
"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?
"The fans who come and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."
So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his debut at full-back.
"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.
"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.
"The movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."
In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.
The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.
One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.
Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.
"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.
"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.
"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.
"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.
"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.
"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.
"Now we are eager for the return fixture."
The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.
"Our team went 1-0 up and had a
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