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Article: POPPY POWER! Now only three Premier clubs are still refusing to back Sportsmail's campaign to honour our heroes; EXCLUSIVE; It looks just fine on a red shirt (United and Liverpool take note).(Sport)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Byline: CHARLES SALE
WO more Prem i e r L e a g u e clubs bowed to Poppy pressure yesterday, making a total of 17 top-flight teams who will embroider the British Legion emblem on their match-day shirts to mark Remembrance Sunday.
Stoke City and Blackburn Rovers are the latest big clubs opting to wear poppy-branded shirts with both admitting the Sportsmail campaign highlighting the poppy issue this week had been a major factor in their decision.
That leaves only three in the Premier League -- Manchester United, Liverpool and Bolton who will play at the weekend without a poppy on their shirts in stubborn defiance of public opinion.
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