A great couple of hours!

[Ashingtonclaret46]

I am at present between houses and living in a holiday cottage, owner, by a pub, in Warkworth, Northumberland and this gave me a great opportunity to visit my friend and Clarets legend, John Angus.

He is still looking very well and fit, in spite of having had two knee replacements and a hip replacement over many years. He is now 80 years old but still walks regularly with his lovely dog. He has given up golf because he was losing his timing and it was frustrating him, having been a very good golfer in his time.
We sat and chatted about football in general and both agreed that we did not particularly enjoy the way that the modern games seems to be heading with good tackles being penalised because an opponent decides to roll around on the pitch after being fairly tackled and the officials are being conned more and more.
We discussed the parallels between the players of today when compared to the likes of the old Spurs team which included the hard players like Maurice Norman and Dave Mackay and a good centre forward in Bobby Smith but also had lovely footballers such as John White and Danny Blanchflower, a brilliant goalscorer in Jimmy Greaves and excellent wingers in Cliff Jones and Terry Medwin. As John said, they were really good players who could play on less than perfect pitches, as anyone who went to White Hart Lane during the years prior to the PL will confirm. We reminisced about some of the great games between our two clubs but also included many more including the title winning match at Maine Road.

I shall stop there but suffice to say that, as always, it was a great pleasure to spend time in John's company. He is a real gentleman and looks back on his time at Burnley with great pleasure, he said that he enjoyed every minute of his playing career, although he did not enjoy travelling and he is still the same!

[Bin Ont Turf]

Definitely a Clarets legend.

I'm not jealous at all.

[conyoviejo]

Nice one Ashy.. A great player he was too.

We got Cool John Angus at full back ..

[jdrobbo]

My favourite place in the UK... well, just next door in Alnmouth! Wonderful coastline.

[Suratclaret]

What a great player and I guess there will be many on here who wish they could have been there with you! There were some memorable games between Burnley and Spurs...Bobby Smith shoulder charging Adam Blacklaw was an example of the irresistable force meeting the immovable object.

[CleggHall]

Ashington - thanks, a lovely experience, John Angus was the most unassuming of top players and was unlucky that his path to more England caps was blocked by Jimmy Armfield though my view was that John was the better player. He sounds to be a contented person, after a top career retiring to his Northumberland roots, family and golf. The word legend is a misused term these days but John's Burnley record certainly earns that accolade.

[Dark Cloud]

Lovely castle at Warkworth.

[South West Claret.]

I remember witnessing JA scoring two goals away at Highbury when he was moved up to centre forward, must have been one of our forwards injured early sixties.