Angus was born in
Amble,
Northumberland and played for the local boys' club before being signed by
Burnley as an amateur at the age of 16 in 1954. A year later, he was signed as a professional on his 17th birthday. At first, he struggled to win a place in the reserve team with the quality of players then at
Turf Moor and was less than a week away from his 18th birthday before his reserve team debut. A week after that debut, however, he was called into the first team after the club were hit with a number of injuries and he performed well in a 2–1 victory against
Everton on 3 September 1956 giving international winger
Tommy Eglington a difficult time. Over the next two seasons he made a number of appearances in the first team but in 1958 new manager
Harry Potts made Angus the regular right back, displacing
Dave Smith. Angus was a superb defender and became an integral part of the Burnley side which won the
Football League title in
1960, and were runners-up in both the league and
FA Cup in
1962. He was capped at
U23 seven times. His full cap came on 27 May 1961, when he and Burnley teammate
Brian Miller made their England debuts in the same game against
Austria in
Vienna. Angus was played out of position having to play at left-back, replacing
Ray Wilson. England were defeated by three goals to one (from
Jimmy Greaves). Unfortunately for Angus, England already had
Jimmy Armfield and then
George Cohen available at right back, and Angus was not selected again. Angus continued his good form for Burnley as the title winning team was dismantled, and he had almost reached the age of 30 before his place was under threat. However the emergence of
Fred Smith saw him out of the side for spells. In
1971, Burnley were relegated from the First Division; Angus was in the
Second Division side for the first two games of the
1971–72 season before a tendon injury forced him out. Although he was hopeful of a recovery, this was not to be and he retired at the end of the season. He had played in a total of 439 league games for Burnley and, with cup games, totalled 521 appearances, which placed him as the outfield player with most appearances for the club at the time, behind only goalkeeper
Jerry Dawson. Subsequently, another goalkeeper,
Alan Stevenson, surpassed his appearance total. His four goals all came between 1964 and 1966. ==Personal life==