sounds like AP wasn't willing to offer him a verbal contract without having a good look at Euell in training. If Euell had waited for AP to make up his mind, Blackpool could have walked and Euell coiuld have ended up jobless. All seems sensible enough to me.
they bloody do.
I've even seen them lift posts from here word for word and print them, saying that they were apparently taken from the echo website. Now, those posts may have also been made on the echo website, but then again, maybe not.