By Steven Sutcliffe & Tom Shingler: Stoke City Chairman Peter Coates and his daughter Denise have climbed into the top 100 list of the country’s wealthiest people.

Their estimated family fortune, much of which comes from their festival park gambling business Bet 365, now sits at close to £750 million.

By Natasha Kaur: Stoke City’s first ever FA Cup Final will make history twice as part of plans to create a giant panoramic photo.WembleyStokepic

At 10 gigapixels, the photograph is set to become the largest image of a sporting event ever taken.

By John Hudson: The FA Cup was at Staffordshire University ahead of Stoke City’s appearance in the final of the competition.

Local fans came to see the historic trophy as part of a special roadshow in the city.

By Kofo Oniru: A brewery in Stone has produced a special ale ahead of Stoke City’s FA Cup Final clash.

Lymestone Brewery originally produced the Stone-Banker beer for the Semi-Final but has continued production ahead of the showpiece final.

Brewery owner Ian Bradford said: “I’ve been a Stoke City fan all my life, so we had to brew a beer to mark the special occasion.”

By Steven Sutcliffe : Stoke City legend Mickey Thomas believes that Matthew Etherington’s fitness could be key to the club winning their first ever FA Cup final against Manchester City later this month.

By Elliot Richardson: Stoke City took advantage of their FA Cup success as fans rushed to snap up season tickets for next season.

Supporters headed to the Britannia stadium to purchase their 2011/2012 season tickets which also guarantees them a ticket for the Cup Final.

An extra 2,300 tickets were made available for the Potters’ date with Manchester City at Wembley for fans who do not have season tickets, but are buying one for next season.

By StaffsLive Reporter: Stoke City booked a return to Wembley for the FA Cup Final after a 5-0 demolition of Bolton Wanderers.

The Potters stunned the Trotters in the semi-final as first half goals from Matthew Etherington, Robert Huth and Kenwyne Jones did the damage, before a second half double from Jonathan Walters wrapped up the victory.

Tony Pulis’ men rarely looked troubled by their opponents as they romped through to a final clash against mega-bucks Manchester City.

By Josh Hoare: Stoke City boss Tony Pulis has insisted his side’s FA Cup semi-final should not have been played at Wembley.

The Potters take on Bolton in the capital and Pulis admits the “traditionalist” in him would have preferred the game to have been played at a different venue.

“I would have loved this game to have been played locally, rather than having to travel down to London,” he explained.

By Isabel Wilding: Tony Pulis has praised fans for their support in run up to the FA cup despite many of them missing out on Wembley tickets.

By Emma Mitchell & Josh Hoare: Stoke City fans have snapped up the club’s complete allocation of tickets for the FA Cup semi-final against Bolton Wanderers.

Thousands of supporters queued from as early as 3am on this morning (April 8) to ensure they got their hands on tickets for the showcase event.