Old school footy fans will rejoice watching this year’s World Cup, to be shown exclusively on Channel 7.

Not only will all matches be officiated by a single referee, there will be no referrals to the Bunker.

The costly mechanism has been sidelined for the tournament, mostly for logistical reasons.

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There is no communication available between several venues in Papua New Guinea and Northern Australia, and the Bunker’s base at Eveleigh.

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The alternative would have been to construct a series of satellite bunkers, closer to those venues.

But that proved too costly. So we’ll now be headed back to video referees making their calls from each stadium live.



