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Things aren’t going so well for Hearts at the moment. Just six weeks ago, they handed contract extensions to manager Steven Naismith and his staff, only to wind up chasing the lot of them out of Tynecastle and through the streets of Edinburgh last Sunday in scenes resembling the opening credits of Trainspotting. Because that’s what happens when you choose to go out of McFizzy Cup at the hands of Falkirk and choose to lose both legs of your Bigger Vase qualifier against Viktoria Plzen while also choosing to lose five consecutive Scottish Premiership games against Dundee, Motherwell, Dundee United, Motherwell, Celtic and St Mirren. For now, Hearts are choosing not to choose a new full-time replacement and have chosen to install reserves coach Liam Fox as an interim until they make a more considered choice. And in a move that is bound to enrage Proper Fitba Men all the way from Wick down to Dumfries and Arbroath across to Fort William, the club have announced they will be making that considered choice with the help of – deep breath – an algorithm.
