After a few games at the Valley in the London Mid-Week League, however, he was allowed to go to Queens Park Rangers, where he signed professional in June 1953.
[1] Angell made his debut for QPR in September 1953 in the 2–0 win against Walsall and went on to play 417 league games scoring 37 goals.
During Angell's time at Orient, the club won the 1970 third division championship just a year after surviving relegation on the final day of the season with a 4–0 at home to Shrewsbury.
Angell died suddenly and unexpectedly of a massive heart attack during a football training run in Epping Forest in July 1979.
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