Gareth Ainsworth's Hearts will be cold blooded as frontman insists he's the man to get Tynecastle rocking

As frontman for rock band Cold Blooded Hearts, Gareth Ainsworth isn’t the type to get stage fright faced with the task of transforming fortunes at Tynecastle.

There’s a confidence about a man who is convinced he can light a fire under a club where he hopes to be front and centre in the list of candidates to replace Steven Naismith. With a wealth of experience as gaffer after guiding Wycombe’s meteoric rise from League Two to the English Championship, Ainsworth ended up on a conveyor belt of casualties at Queens Park Rangers.

There’s no doubting the distinctive vocals from one of the game’s mavericks as he laid out his plan to put some heart back into Gorgie. He told Record Sport : “I’m a bit of a different character and a frontman which I’m proud of. As a manager, the fans know there is an energy out there trying to bring success.

“They will know that this guy is doing his utmost to bring this club to where they should be. I know the fans will take me to their hearts. I’m not the type who does three days in Scotland then back home for a few days, I would commit to Edinburgh.

“I want to feel the pulse of the city and give fans what they want. Too many managers dip in and dip out. Cold Blooded Hearts? That’s what’s required at Tynecastle.”

Ainsworth’s an articulate student of the game and is blunt in his assessment of the current landscape of business in football. He’s adamant the worst excess of money and ambition of clubs down south hasn’t yet been imbedded in Scottish football.

He said: “I was disappointed when I went to QPR as I felt we’ve lost the basic aims of why we do it all in the first place. English football has lost so much of what the game should be all about. It should be far more than money,