{"id":736405,"date":"2026-06-14T17:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736405\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:26:37","slug":"nrls-problem-gambler-ref-received-work-experience-in-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736405\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL\u2019s \u2018problem gambler\u2019 ref received work experience in racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NRL\u2019s top referee, Ashley Klein, issued a statement late last week, admitting that he had a \u201cproblem with gambling on horse racing and greyhound racing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was a response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/nrl-s-number-one-referee-had-400k-gambling-problem-20260612-p606bb.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">story in The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL\u2019s top referee, Ashley Klein, issued a statement late last week, admitting that he had a \u201cproblem&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-736405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}