After two goals in seven games for Rushden, he joined Brian Horton's Port Vale for the 2002–03 campaign. He scored seven goals in seventeen games, before leaving in November 2002. He then joined Ian Holloway's Queens Park Rangers. He played thirteen games for QPR, and was an unused substitute in the play-off Final defeat to Cardiff City at the Millennium Stadium – his third play-off encounter in as many years. Angell was heading to Ireland to play for Linfield in July 2003, however the deal fell through as he refused to play trial games before signing a contract.