Superheroes answer call

For 25 years, there has been a question that Ronnie Whelan has always meant to ask Tony Galvin.

It was just past midnight on the evening of Ireland’s cherished Euro 88 win over England and, as a rather drunk Whelan wandered back to his hotel room, he saw something he’s pretty sure wasn’t just part of some celebratory haze.

“I have to ask you this, Tony,” the former Liverpool player says. “Why were you running along the corridor with a black sheet on your back going ‘I’m a bat’? I just never got round to ask you that one.”