Who coaches the coach? Ask Andy Flower, Peter Moores and Paul Farbrace in
Cricket, and Stuart Lancaster, Rob Baxter and Nigel Redman in rugby. They are just a few of the sports coaches to whom Keith Lyons was a “critical friend”, supporting and constructively challenging their decisions to stimulate learning and development.
Keith, who has died aged 68 of complications after being treated for a brain tumour, was an educator and sport scientist who pioneered the analysis of performance in sport. He was the author of Using Video in Sport (1985), the first book on the subject, and in 1992 he established the Centre for Notational Analysis at Cardiff Metropolitan University, to work with sport organisations on analyses of performance in training and competition environments. This included supporting the
British Lions rugby union tour of
South Africa in 1997.