Watch Elliott, newly installed Commonwealth 1500 metres champion, run Then interview him about prospects for coming season Eat Drink Return to hotel Sleep. Return home.Hardly an excruciatingly detailed plan, I grant you. You're hooked already.Anyway, this was the schedule: Get up to Rotherham Book into hotel. Find park where fun run involving local-lad-made-good, Peter Elliott, is due to take place.

Forgive me, but I get uncomfortable when I see those words together. Because in my experience, you can say only one thing with certainty about a detailed plan It won't happen. Let me share with you, by way of evidence, Rotherham. That is, my trip to Rotherham on behalf of a sadly defunct Sunday newspaper some years ago.Admit it. DETAILED PLAN Detailed plan.

But De La Hoya is the biggest non-heavyweight star in boxing and continuing his unbeaten run tonight will afford Sky some comfort.. Sky has already suffered a major body blow this week when Hamed signed away worldwide TV rights to the American cable giant Home Box Office, with whom Sky must now negotiate in order to continue televising Hamed's fights. Calzaghe should retain by decision, as should the 30-year-old Woodhall, who has a point to prove following a lacklustre performance last time out.Sky TV will be less than happy with the disintegration of the British half of a transatlantic pay-per-view double-header that also features Oscar De La Hoya's WBC welterweight title defence against Ike Quartey in Las Vegas. It is likely that Reid will look the worse for wear after 12 tough rounds. Much of Calzaghe's pre-fight banter has centred on a belief that he is "better looking" than 27-year-old Reid, a former WBC champion and part- time male model who has won 26 of 28 fights (one loss, one draw, 18 KOs). It would be crass to judge him so were it not for the premium Calzaghe himself places upon such superficialities.

The Gwent southpaw, unbeaten in 25 fights (23 KOs), is fast, vicious and hard-hitting, as shown by his title-winning fight against Chris Eubank in October 1997, and two defences last year before being sidelined by hand injuries.But Calzaghe's attempts to emulate Hamed's extravagant ring entrances are proving nothing short of embarrassing. It is, therefore, heartening for Warren that this show has been so well supported at the box office.But this is hardly the dream return to the big stage that Warren had been hoping for following the settlement, at a cost of pounds 7.5m, of his 14- month legal war with his former partner Don King, and his increasingly acrimonious split with Hamed.Calzaghe, 27, replaces Hamed as the star of Warren's stable. "In football, if a player gets injured, the team still plays I'm not happy. But we've still had a great response from the people of Newcastle." He predicts a near-sell-out at the 10,800-seat Telewest Arena.Warren had successfully featured established stars such as Nigel Benn and Naseem Hamed in Newcastle previously, but tonight's contestants are from the next generation, fighters who have been developed on satellite rather than terrestrial TV. The 13-fight card is now headlined by Calzaghe's third defence of the WBO super-middleweight title against Reid, plus Richie Woodhall's second defence of the World Boxing Council version of the 12- stone championship, against the eccentric Italian Vincenzo Nardiello, a former holder of this title. "It's the business we're in," complained the promoter, Frank Warren.