A stray boot blinded Ian McKinley in one eye but he's back playing top-level rugby

Ian McKinley thought his rugby career was over but, thanks to a pair of protective goggles and a lot of heart, he might even become an Italy internationalBy Jonathan Drennan for Behind the Lines, part of the Guardian Sport NetworkThere are few more terrifying places to be on a rugby pitch than trapped helplessly at the bottom of a ruck at the mercy of heavy, studded boots. That is where the 19-year-old Leinster player Ian McKinley found himself while representing his club, University College Dublin, against Lansdowne in 2010. The out-half was competing at a ruck and wrestling for the ball when…