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Snow Joke: Severe Weather Warnings Throw Merseyside and Manchester Derbies Into Doubt on Key Weekend

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Snow and freezing temperatures could throw one of the season's most anticipated weekends of football into chaos on Sunday, with the north-west set to be besieged by Jack Frost's armies.

Snow. It's forecast to snow a lot. That's what we're getting at.

The Met Office have given an amber warning for 'heavy snow' in both the Liverpool and Manchester areas from 4am on Sunday, leaving open the possibility that the Merseyside and Manchester derbies could be postponed.

Up to eight inches of snow could fall in the north-west at the end of the weekend and fans could face tricky conditions to travel in - although of course, neither set of away supporters will have to travel far to the grounds of their local rivals.