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Pinched from under the noses of Manchester City from Arsenal for £1.6
million on transfer-deadline day of the 1993/94 season by then manager
Mike Walker, Anders failed to make any immediate impact on a team
struggling against relegation. He was, though, heavily involved in the
end-of-season dramatics against Wimbledon, when with only five minutes
gone he bizarrely handled a Wimbeldon corner inside the eighteen-yard
box to gift them a penalty and the lead. Then, just before half-time,
with the Blues now 0-2 down, he won a controversial penalty that was
duly dispatched by Graham Stuart to begin a fightback that was completed
by a Barry Horne thunderbolt and a second for Stuart.
The beginning of
the following season was hugely disappointing as Everton continued to
struggle with Limpar a peripheral figure in a side adrift at the bottom
of the Premiership until Mike Walker's departure, and the arrival of Joe
Royle at the start of November. Royle's belief in the player's
abilities - he described the Swede as the most talented player he'd ever
worked with - had an immediate effect on Anders. Always a 'confidence'
player, he turned in a series of starring performances as the Blues
dragged themselves clear of relegation and embarked on a gloriously
unexpected, and ultimately victorious FA Cup run. A run which witnessed
what many Evertonians regard as his finest performance in a royal blue
shirt, the semi-final against Tottenham.
He ran the game as Eveton
powered to a comprehensive 4-1 victory, and was also instrumental in
Paul Rideout's winner against Manchester United in the final. 1995/96
saw him carry on from the previous season as he consistently produced
his best football since his involvement in Arsenal's '90/91 championship
season. Everton finished sixth, just missing out on a UEFA Cup spot, as
Anders scored three goals and was instrumental in many more, memorably
at Anfield where a forty yard pass dissected the Liverpool defence for
Andrei Kanchelskis' second in the Blues first derby win there for ten
years. Everton's future appeared bright but the following season saw the
club slip from 'dark horse' title contenders to relegation battlers,
with Limpar once more a peripheral figure as Royle appeared to lose
confidence in his once favourite player and he was sold to Birmingham
City for £100,000 in January 1996. (Mike Williams)
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1997 Birmingham City 4 (0)
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