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By David Lynch<\/h3>\n

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Stoke City<\/a>‘s Jermaine Pennant<\/a> has praised the togetherness of his team mates ahead of their FA Cup final tie with Manchester City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Potters reached the FA Cup Final for the first time in their history with a 5-0 thrashing of Bolton Wanderers and Pennant puts this all down to the team spirit in the dressing room.<\/p>\n

He told The Sun<\/em>: “I’ve been at Arsenal and Liverpool and they are massive clubs but they’ve got something missing, you don’t feel the togetherness.<\/p>\n

“You’ll have foreigners there and the English players over here and they’ll all be separated. At Stoke everyone is one.<\/p>\n

“Here everything is just perfect.”<\/p>\n

Pennant, 28, also said that he felt that Stoke’s stature meant making the landmark final was a more satisfying accomplishment.<\/p>\n

He continued: “Because it’s such a massive achievement for the club to get to the cup final it makes it that little bit better.<\/p>\n

“If you are at teams who get to an FA Cup final every other year it’s like, ‘OK we got to another cup final, great’.<\/p>\n

“But it’s the first time for Stoke so it means more and it’s a first for me so we’ve got something in common.”<\/p>\n

The winger, who has famously had several run-ins with the law in the past, also praised the man-management skills of Stoke boss Tony Pulis.<\/p>\n

He said: “The boss talked about the past and told me, ‘That’s gone now you’re in my team. All I want you to do is work hard, don’t take your foot off the gas and, if you do that, there won’t be a problem.’<\/p>\n

“It’s true if you’re given a platform and you’re enjoying your surroundings then the football will do your talking.”

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