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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Make It to Munich review – uplifting story of a young footballer cycling to recovery
This is an uplifting film about a miracle of ordinary life: the lightning-fast recovery of the teenage Scottish footballer Ethan Walker after being hit by a car, and the 745 mile (1,200km) bike ride he undertook from Hampden Park, Glasgow, to Munich just nine months after the accident to deliver the match pennant for the opening game of Euro 2024. Walker – on a football scholarship in New York when he was struck at 60mph – suffered cataclysmic injuries, including two brain haemorrhages, multiple fractures, the dislocation of his right knee and a lacerated lung. Advertisement So you understand the concern of Walker's companions when he chooses to ride hands-free, arms outstretched, double thumbs-up. But that's just the style of this carrot-topped trouper: resolutely cheerful and un-self-pitying, despite facing the end of his football career before it began, and aftershocks of the accident such as a lingering speech impediment. Director Martyn Robertson intercuts Walker's progress through Scotland, England, the Netherlands and Germany with flashbacks to his recovery. His boon companion on both legs is orthopaedic surgeon Gordon Mackay, himself a former Rangers footballer, who rebuilt the youngster's knee using pioneering ligament repair techniques. The film is possibly a little too low-incident for its own good – the Rhine bursting its banks over their route is the worst of it – but is testament to the stout spirit with which Walker leads the enterprise. Robertson, who previously directed the similar sporting-adversity story Ride the Wave (2022), borrows the quiet wisdom of his subject and lets it colour the story. Amid the punctures and pitstops there are discreet road-movie epiphanies: Walker accepting, when his surgeon levels with him, that he must now focus on coaching, not playing, and his wry smile as he finally acknowledges that his resilience is, after all, exceptional. With the boy's parents checking in by phone as he rediscovers his autonomy, the quasi-paternal bond between Walker and Mackay is touching. Advertisement The internal journey is as significant as the trans-European one, a feeling Robertson buffs with quick lyrical bursts, such as a drone shot over a poppy field, or a spaced-out Walker singing the Spider-Man theme tune to a spider dangling from a car-park ceiling. Even Scotland getting hammered 5-1 at the end can't dampen the spirit of this unassuming and heartening pilgrimage. • Make It to Munich is in UK cinemas from 15 May.
Reuters
25-04-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Spain's national hydrogen network plan ahead of schedule, Enagas chief says
PUERTOLLANO, Spain, April 25 (Reuters) - Plans to build a 2,600 km (1,615 mile) hydrogen network in Spain are advancing ahead of schedule and the infrastructure is on track to start operations in 2030, the chief of Spanish gas grid operator Enagas ( opens new tab said on Friday. The network will be part of the planned trans-European H2Med corridor aimed at connecting the Iberian region with northwest Europe. Make sense of the latest ESG trends affecting companies and governments with the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter. Sign up here. The company plans to take a final investment decision in 2027 and start construction the following year, Chief Executive Arturo Gonzalo said at an event to launch a public consultation process related to the project. The Spanish network will include new pipelines as well as some repurposed gas assets, he said, for an overall investment of some 2.6 billion euros ($2.95 billion). "The project is starting to become a reality, it is progressing at a very good pace, even faster than expected," he said. "Today we are setting in motion a key milestone to make a hydrogen infrastructure a reality in Spain." Enagas is among the staunchest supporters of a green hydrogen industry, which uses renewable energy for its production, and still faces high costs, heavily depends on subsidies and is struggling to find buyers for its production. With Spanish gas demand falling, the company is diversifying into managing a network of hydrogen infrastructure. It is also targeting ammonia and CO2 capture. To fund its plans, it has sold assets, reduced dividends and cut debt. The plans are in line with Spain's ambitious green agenda. Thanks to abundant solar and wind power, the country is vying to be a European leader in green hydrogen. It set a 2030 target of 12 gigawatts for electrolysers used to make green hydrogen. ($1 = 0.8811 euros)
