In this paper, we propose a connection between the field theory local model(Katz-Vafa field theory) and the type of singular fibre in flat crepantresolutions of elliptic Calabi-Yau fourfolds, a class of fourfolds consideredby Esole and Yau. We review the analysis of degenerate fibres for models withgauge groups SU(5) and SO(10) in detail, and observe that the naively expectedfibre type is realized if and only if the Higgs vev in the field theory localmodel is unramified. To test this idea, we implement a linear (unramified)Higgs vev for the `E6' Yukawa point in a model with gauge group SU(5) andverify that this indeed leads to a fibre of Kodaira type IV*. Based on thisobservation, we argue i) that the singular fibre types appearing in thefourfolds studied by Esole-Yau are not puzzling at all, (so that this class offourfolds does not have to be excluded from the candidate of input data of someyet-unknown formulation of F-theory) and ii) that such fourfold geometries alsocontain more information than just the eigenvalues of the Higgs field vevconfiguration in the field theory local models.