It wasn't until he joined Cheltenham Town in July 1987 that Angell was converted from defender to a striker by the club's then manager John Murphy, who had discovered the player at a 6-a-side game.
[4] He struggled to break into the first-team at the Fourth Division club, but found his shooting boots when new manager Danny Bergara took over in March 1989.
[4] Angell switched to Southend United, who had won promotion into the Third Division after finishing one point and one place ahead of County.
[4] He formed an effective partnership with target-man Ian Benjamin and became joint-top scorer in the Third Division in 1990–91, as he and Bolton's Tony Philliskirk scored 26 goals.
The Roots Hall faithful continued to witness second-tier football in 1993–94; however, Angell attracted interest from bigger clubs and joined top-flight Everton on loan in September 1993 and again in January 1994.
Despite Angell playing just one game in each spell, manager Mike Walker signed him for a fee of £500,000 on 21 January (£160,000 of this went to Stockport as part of a tribunal agreement made four years earlier).
[4][6] However, Angell had just undergone major surgery on his left leg and was unable to play to his full potential so it proved to be a disastrous spell, his only goal in nineteen games for the "Toffees" being a tap-in against Chelsea.
[9] He is widely regarded by fans of both Everton and Sunderland as one of the worst players to turn out for both of these clubs, where he failed to reproduce the form he showed in the lower divisions.
After being forced to train with the youth team at Sunderland, he returned to Stockport County in August 1996, now managed by Dave Jones, for a £120,000 fee.
[15] He scored seven goals in seventeen games, before leaving in November after the club were unable to offer him a long-term deal due to financial constraints.
[20] He was appointed head coach at New Zealand Football Championship club Hawke's Bay United in September 2014.
[21] Some players made it known that they would have preferred incumbent head coach Chris Greatholder to have stayed, and were released by Angell.