"moonlighting" (though in the days of the maximum wage for footballers he could hardly be blamed); he received payments for articles that he wrote for several newspapers, enabling him to have a more luxurious life style than his teammates. A deal with News Chronicle was said to be worth as much again as his football wage. Dundee Steel left Derby in September 1950 to return to his native Scotland, Dundee paying a Scottish record transfer fee of £22,500. He helped the club to win the Scottish League Cup in 1951–52 and 1952–53. He was also a finalist in the 1951–52 Scottish Cup. He retired as a player in 1954. In May 2009, Steel was inducted into Dundee F.C.'s Hall of Fame. International career He won a total of 30 caps for Scotland, scoring 12 goals. Despite having played only a handful of league games for Morton, he was selected for a Great Britain XI for a match against the Rest of Europe in 1947, in which he scored from 30 yards out in a 6–1 win. Retirement and emigration In 1954 he announced he was emigrating to the US, where he managed the Los Angeles Danes, before later working in advertising. Playing style Billy Steel had springs for muscles, a choirboy's face that masked a devouring, often ruthless determination to achieve football perfection, a caustic tongue that frequently angered team-mates more bitterly than opponents, and a style and ability that, in this modern age, would have the wealthy clubs of Europe bidding frantically for his transfer. Unlike so many of his predecessors, who were indelibly stamped with the style of their birthplace, Steel was classless. No one watching this chirpy little man in action could have said from which soccer school he graduated. His touch was Scottish of course, but later in his career he welded to that eternal grace an iron physique. He belonged to the elite corp of players: the global greats. His secret was that of Denis Law, an agile brain, a puma's pounce, and extraordinary gymnastic ability that put him a move ahead of his colleagues. There was nothing svelte about Steel: he exuded vitality, he had the killer instinct of a boxing champion, he was the type of aggressive attacker who was so keen to win that he would have sworn at his best friend if he felt he hadn't been pulling his weight. Career