John Angus

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John Angus
Personnel
birthday September 2, 1938
place of birth Amble ,  England
position Defense (right)
Juniors
Years station
Amble Boys Club
Burnley FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1955-1972 Burnley FC 439 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959-1962 England U-23 7 (0)
1961 England 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

John Angus (born September 2, 1938 in Amble ) is a former English football player . As a right- back , he played 521 competitive games at Burnley FC for 17 years and was a member of the 1960 championship team .

Athletic career

After Angus had played mostly in the center of defense in the school team in his hometown of Amble, he switched to the right defender at the Amble Boys Club . There he was discovered by the Scout of Burnley FC, Charlie Ferguson, who worked in the north-east of England , and in 1954 Angus joined the "Weinroten" team. Since he was very homesick after his move, he went back shortly afterwards. The following year he finally dared to move to Burnley, and in September 1955 he signed a professional contract.

The pressure of competition in Burnley was so great at the beginning that Angus made it into the reserve team again. One day after his 18th birthday, he finally made his debut for the first division side against Everton , although he "owed" this opportunity primarily to an injury disaster in defense. With his performance, when he neutralized the Irish international player Tommy Eglington , who acted on the other side , he made a lasting impression and in the 1956/57 season he completed more than half of the competitive games. He competed alternately with Dave Smith to succeed Harold Rudman . In 1958 Angus won the duel and in the following years he was part of a team that shaped one of the most successful periods in the club's history. He also established himself as one of the most promising talents nationally. After his appointment to the English youth national team in 1957, he completed seven international matches for the U-23 team between 1959 and 1962. His merits in the game included a cool head, which he used to keep under pressure, and the ability to fight one another. With a good passing game, he was able to initiate offensive plays from the defensive in front of him placed teammates such as Willie Morgan or John Connelly .

Angus was represented in the 1959/60 season with the exception of one game in all league games of Burnley FC, at the end of which the club won the English championship . The following year, the club celebrated a remarkable success in the European championship competition with a win against the two-time finalists Stade Reims , which could only be defeated by the later title holder Real Madrid in 1956 and 1959 - the 3-1 win in the first leg of the next round against Hamburger SV was no longer enough as the second leg was lost 4-1. At the end of the 1960/61 season he came in Vienna on May 27, 1961 against Austria (1: 3) - like his teammate Brian Miller - to his first international match for England and although he did well on the unfamiliar left showed, it stayed with this single mission (primarily because Jimmy Armfield was “set” as right defender ). With Burnley Angus reached the final in the FA Cup in the 1961/62 season , which was lost to Tottenham Hotspur with 1: 3.

In contrast to his defense partner Alex Elder , who later could point to a double-digit goal scoring, Angus was almost completely exempt from goal threat. He remained completely without a hit for a long time and only in October 1964 he was successful in this regard for the first time. He even scored two goals against Arsenal . Curiously, this was due to his own injury and since substitutions were not yet allowed, he was converted into an "emergency striker" - the game ended in a 2-3 defeat. The two remaining goals he scored in two consecutive home games in January 1966 against Fulham (1-0) and Chelsea (1: 2). At the end of the 1960s he initially fell behind against teammate Fred Smith , but from 1969 until relegation in 1971 he fought his way back into the team. In the following second division season 1971/72 he completed two more games, but in the second game against Luton Town he injured himself so badly that his active career ended abruptly. He did not play in Burnley again and in the year after his resignation in 1972 he was officially adopted with a charity game.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "England - U-23 International Results - Details" (RSSSF)
  2. ↑ Some online sources give Warkworth as an alternative place of birth.
  3. ↑ "John Angus" (Clarets Mad)
  4. ↑ Hayes, Dean P .: England! England! The Complete Who's Who of Players since 1946 . Sutton Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7509-3234-1 , pp. 141 .
personal data
SURNAME Angus, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Amble , England