Article: POPPY POWER! Now only three Premier clubs are still refusing to back Sportsmail's campaign to honour our heroes; It looks just fine on a red shirt (United and Liverpool take note); EXCLUSIVE.(Sport)

Byline: CHARLES SALE

TWO more Premier League 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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