Meet this Weekend Division Team Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Matches

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Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

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

The lineup this season includes nine former top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton 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 fans who come and see are happy and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a