Discover this Weekend League Squad Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

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A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League players in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their roster this season features nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite games.

This elite roster also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this season through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

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

"The people who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running 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 attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was going round like wildfire they had 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 got 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a