WATCH: Referee Lloyd Linton gets nailed twice in one game!

Lloyd Linton was entrusted with the whistle for this weekend's PRO14 Italian derby. 

The Ulster-born referee who is also a qualified doctor got a lot more involved they he may have liked.

The first time he got caught up in a ruck and seemed to recover relatively quickly but the second incident would have hurt a lot more!

He was unluckily positioned for the second incident when Tito Tebaldi peeled off the back of a maul and tried to grubber the ball into the Zebre 22. 

The ball went straight into Linton's most sensitive region. Fair play to Linton who was able to laugh it off.