Discover the Weekend Division Team Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Matches

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A Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Tier.

The lineup this season includes nine ex- Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

This high-profile squad also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home match against reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a