I remember a few years ago, probably mid 80's we had a Cheshire Senior Cup game on a Saturday sometime in December if I remember rightly, whilst at the time
we were competing highly in the top flight of non league, yet the Cheshire Cup game took precedent ahead of an APL game.
I can understand the National FA Cup / Trophy takes priority, but not a localised minor county cup competition.
Once again, the Cheshire FA think they are the gods of the footballing world.
Senior Cup games on Saturday afternoons in the 1980s -
8.3.1980 semi-final v Witton at Runcorn; lost 1-2; had to postpone APL game at Maidstone (fortunately the following Saturday was available)
9.1.1982 Rd 1 v Stalybridge (home); won 4-1
6.3.1982 semi-final v Macc at Witton; won 2-1
24.4.1982 final v Runcorn at Crewe; won 1-0; start of the mad week when we played Sat, Mon, Wed, Thur, Fri. Sat!
9.3.1985 semi-final v Vics at Macc; drew 3-3
20.4.1985 final v Runcorn at Vics; lost 0-2
15.2.1986 quarter-final v Runcorn (home); drew 2-2
Do any of those fit the bill? At a guess you may have been thinking of the first one because it caused quite a stir at the time - we wanted to play our reserves in the Senior Cup while fulfilling the Maidstone fixture with our 1st XI but I
think both the league & the County FA said no
Since 1986 CSC has always been midweek; I
think I'm right in saying that Conf Nat games take precedence over Senior Cup (not that Conf Nat teams field full 1st XIs in their county cups, of course) but at all levels below that county cups take precedence over midweek league games. I could be wrong about that - perhaps someone out there knows that rule book better than I do.