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Rugby referee sent flying by 18-stone Bath hooker

Luke Pearce eventually recovered to issue 10 penalties and a yellow card to the Premiership side.

RUGBY REFEREES ARE having a tough time of it lately and Luke Pearce was the latest to find himself hitting the deck.

Irish referee JP Doyle was recently floored during the Gloucester v Worcester match when he took a box-kick clearance from Dan Robson point-blank in the ear.

Pearce was the unfortunate official at the weekend as he stumbled into the path of Bath hooker Rob Webber. The English forward, who is generously listed as a shade under 18st on the Bath website, skittled the ref over and left him with a gash above his eye.

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Pearce recovered his wits and went on to issue 10 penalties and a yellow card to Bath in their 43-25 defeat to Northampton Saints, for whom George North was on the scoresheet.

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    Jan 14th 2015, 7:00 AM

    What a joke, where r all the Germans , muller , scheinsteiger , gotze even Rodriguez from the World Cup and these players don’t make the reserves

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    Jan 14th 2015, 8:40 AM

    In fairness the only two you would remove are Marcelo and Alves

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    Jan 14th 2015, 7:25 AM

    No Godin aswell. Stupid competition

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    Jan 14th 2015, 7:19 AM

    Surely Aguero should get a look in

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    Jan 14th 2015, 8:47 AM

    Like to see a game between the two teams

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    Jan 14th 2015, 11:32 AM

    A joke ! Paul Mc Shane should get into that team. Defo !!

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    Jan 14th 2015, 9:36 AM

    No bale????

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    Jan 14th 2015, 8:10 AM

    Sanchez,Fabragas,De Gea and German World Cup winners? Joke!

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    Jan 14th 2015, 8:30 AM

    Sanchez has been incredible since he joined arsenal but he was in and out of the team at barca, same with fabregas and I don’t think it’s a joke that a player that won la Liga, played in champions league final got in ahead of de gea

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    Jan 14th 2015, 6:02 PM

    And where the hell is joe Allen?

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