This week three unions - the civil servants' union the PCS and two teaching unions the NUT and ATL - unveiled plans to get 750, 000 of their members to walk out later this month in protest at pension cuts.
Marc-Antoine Fortune smashed a shot just wide soon after but seconds later Villa had scored thanks to Albrighton's magic on the right wing, where his instinctive trickery - nut-megging Marek Cech - allowed the young Englishman to get to the bye-line.