Greg Hartley

Infobox rugby league biography
playername = Greg Hartley
fullname = Greg Hartley
nickname = 'Hollywood' Hartley

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Greg Hartley is an Australian former referee in the New South Wales Rugby League competitions of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Hartley has been described as "perhaps the most colourful and controversial referee in football history". [cite web|author=Sharon O'Neill|publisher="ABC - Stateline, NSW"|title=Footy Nostalgia at the Sydney Film Festival |url=http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/nsw/content/2006/s1948801.htm |accessdate=2007-12-26|date=2007-06-08]

Hartley began his rugby league career as a player and had three first-grade games with Newtown Jets in 1967 before rupturing his spleen in a reserve-grade match in the same year.

In 1969 he was graded as a referee in the Easts junior leagues and by 1975 he was officiating in the first-grade semi-finals. He was considered the game's top referee of the time, officiating in the 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981 Grand Finals before retiring in 1982.

He is now a football commentator on radio station 2KY, forming a partnership with former Manly player, Peter Peters, which is popularly known as "Hollywood and Zorba". [cite web|publisher="2KY"|title=The 2KY Team |url=http://www.2ky.com.au/company/team.php |accessdate=2007-12-26]

Footnotes

References

* Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen (2007). "The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players". Wetherill Park, New South Wales: Gary Allen Pty Ltd, 609. ISBN 9781877082931.
* Andrews, Malcolm (2006). "The ABC of Rugby League" ISBN 9780733319464