Cup clash off as fog affects pitch, roads, airport

Heavy fog has forced the postponement of Liverpool’s Carling Cup quarter-final at home to Arsenal.

The match had been in doubt from early in the evening with Anfield shrouded in the thick mist but hopes were raised when referee Martin Atkinson undertook his first inspection at 6.15pm and said, if conditions had not deteriorated in 30 minutes, the game would go ahead.