The NRL’s top referee, Ashley Klein, issued a statement late last week, admitting that he had a “problem with gambling on horse racing and greyhound racing”.
It was a response to a story in The Sydney Morning Herald that Klein had lost more than $400,000 betting with corporate bookmakers and placed himself on the national self-exclusion register in 2023. Most of the losses occurred after the NRL first became aware of his addiction in 2019.
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