The police won't give a toss about Villa v Albion. If they were that arsed we wouldn't have played a Friday night game earlier this season.
Why did they have the over the top policing, the same blockades etc in place as when we play Blues and Albion only had 2000 tickets if the police aren't bothered?
What's that got to do with the price of Marillion? You've said the police will intervene to move the kick off, despite the fact that they have never bothered in previous meetings. We enjoy similar blockades when we play Millwall but, again, the police don't move the kick off. Taking measures to prevent disorder and moving kick offs are different things, the latter only happens when we play Small Heath.