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One Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

This star-studded roster also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a