However, the subsequent period saw the departure of manager van Gaal along with an exodus of many key players including Clarence Seedorf in 1995 ; Edgar Davids, Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, and Nwankwo Kanu in 1996 ; Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, and Winston Bogarde in 1997 ; Ronald de Boer and Frank de Boer in 1998 ; and Edwin van der Sar and Jari Litmanen in 1999.

All of the 3 main parties saw their total votes fall, with Labour's total vote dropping by 2. 8 million on 1997, the Conservatives 1. 3 million, and the Liberal Democrats 428, 000.

The 2005 season saw Essendon miss the finals for the first time since 1997, finishing with their second-worst result to that time under Sheedy's coaching, 13th position with 8 wins and 14 losses.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

November 1997 saw the release of Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions, a two-disc set largely recorded in 1969 and 1971.

* Armand Quoidbach, is a Belgian saw player who has played the saw since 1997.

The 1997 baseball season also saw the introduction of interleague play.

The crushing defeat of the 1997 election saw the Conservative Party lose over half their seats from 1992 and saw the party re-align with public perceptions of them.

The mid-1990s saw annual rates of 50-60 % ( 1993 to 1997 ) with an exceptional peak in 1996 at 99. 88 %.

The year 1997 also saw the release of the band's sophomore album, Much Afraid, which was produced by Stephen Lipson.

Dismayed by what he saw as the excesses of Zerzan and others, Watson eventually repudiated primitivism in his 1997 essay " Swamp Fever ".

By this time Murdoch had already built a working model of his steam carriage, which was held in the Museum of Science and Industry, Birmingham until its closure in 1997 and is now at Thinktank, Birmingham's new science museum ; accounts exist from witnesses who " saw the model steam carriage run around Murdoch's living room in Redruth in 1784 ".

The year 1997 saw a major shift towards judicial independence, as the Supreme Court of Canada in the Provincial Judges Reference found an unwritten constitutional norm guaranteeing judicial independence to all judges, including civil law inferior court judges.

1997 also saw lineup changes ; bassist Victor Damiani and guitarist Greg Brown both left, prompting speculation about the band's survival ; McCrea noted that " Musically, there was a really great symbiosis and I really felt that it ( their departures, especially Brown's ) was the most stupid thing in the world ", and said that he had considered dissolving the band.

The creative changes made by the WWF creative board saw wrestling take on a " street fighting ", " bad attitude " approach ; however, despite the revolutionary changes in sports-entertainment that the WWF founded, 1997 remains the lowest of the WWF's financial income and a heavy loss in fan interest to rival WCW.

From 1997 to 2007 Stansted saw rapid expansion of passenger numbers on the back of the boom in low cost air travel, peaking at 24 million passengers in the 12 months to October 2007, but since then passenger numbers have been in decline.

The 2009 – 10 season saw the Hawks improve further, winning 53 games, their first 50-win season since 1997.

In addition, three finals over four years between 1993 and 1997 saw the holder reach the final only to lose ( Parma 1993 and 1994, Arsenal 1994 and 1995, and Paris Saint-Germain 1996 and 1997 ).

After a flood in 1997, Utica saw growth because it had to strengthen its building, planning, and zoning laws in order to get the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) and Indiana DNR rebuilding funds.

Metallica's Load ( 1996 ) and ReLoad ( 1997 ) each sold in excess of 4 million copies in the US and saw the band develop a more melodic and blues-rock sound.

From 1968 on, the Series I XJ saw minor changes, first in 1973 ( to Series II ), 1979 ( Series III ), a complete redesign for 1986 / 1987 in XJ40, further modifications in 1995 ( X300 ), in 1997 with V8-power ( X308 ), and a major advance in 2003 with an industry-first aluminium monocoque-chassis ( X350 ).

The year 1997 saw Anderson recording and releasing a Celtic-influenced solo album called The Promise Ring, around the time he married Jane Luttenberger.

In the years since the collapse of the Mythos CCG ( production ceased in 1997 ; see below ), the release of CoC books has been very sporadic with up to a year between releases.

In February 1997, with the legal right to the Coldcut name back, they released a double pack single " Atomic Moog 2000 " / " Boot the System ", the first Coldcut release on Ninja Tune.

The growing presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.

* EDuke: Following the release of the Doom source code in 1997, gamers wanted a similar source code release from 3D Realms.

Several hundred custom-made scenarios have been designed since the release of the game in 1997.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa gained international recognition following the release of Kyua ( 1997 ).

Godzilla 1985 has been released on home video several times in the U. S. The first release was by New World in the mid 80's, another by Starmaker video ( who had acquired some of New World's library ) in the 1992, and again by Anchor Bay in 1997 All home video releases include the Bambi Meets Godzilla animated short with the exception of the Starmaker release.

Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.

His previous 1997 release, Hex Files: The Goth Bible similarly took an international look at the subculture.

For his 1997 release To See You, Connick recorded original love songs, touring the United States and Europe with a full symphony orchestra backing him and his piano in each city.

This put both Belle & Sebastian and Jeepster firmly on the map, and enabled them to release several EPs with Belle & Sebastian throughout 1997, as well as signing their second act, Snow Patrol, later in the year.

The release of more consciously stylish products in the 1990s such as the furgora ( angora-wool mix ) Spitfire, was helped by its presence upon the head of Samuel L. Jackson in 1997.

* First release: April 2, 1997

* Full Circle with Michael Palin ( Travel 1996 / 97 ; Programme release 1997 ): in which he circumnavigated the lands around the Pacific Ocean anti-clockwise ; a journey of almost 50, 000 miles ( 80, 000 km ) starting on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and taking him through Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

This tour culminated in the Brazilian release of a live CD Brazil ' 96 in 1997.

SNK ceased to manufacture home consoles by the end of 1997, but continued to release games for both arcade and home for another 8 years.

Wertico played drums on Paul Winter's 1990 Grammy-nominated release, " Earth: Voices Of A Planet "; he has also played on and produced a number of CDs for artists including vocalist Kurt Elling's 1995 Grammy-nominated release " Close Your Eyes ", Elling's 1997 Grammy-nominated release " The Messenger ", Elling's 1998 Grammy-nominated release " This Time It's Love " and Elling's 2003 Grammy-nominated release " Man In The Air.

Recent television espionage programmes are La Femme Nikita ( 1997 – 2001 ), Alias ( 2001 – 2006 ), 24 ( 2001-2010 ), NBC's Chuck ( 2007-present ), and Spooks in the UK ( release as MI-5 in the USA and Canada ) 2002-2011.

* OM-42PS: Paul Simon's signature acoustic model ( manufactured in the 1997 model year ) is based on the OM-42, which had not been manufactured since 1930.

In 1997, Blades headed the cast of singer / songwriter Paul Simon's first Broadway musical, The Capeman, based on a true story about a violent youth who becomes a poet in prison, which also starred Marc Anthony and Ednita Nazario.

Simon's debut season came with the Atlanta Braves in 1997, for whom he played until 1999.

* Paul Simon's song " Adios Hermanos " from his album Songs from the Capeman ( 1997 )

The game laid the foundations for the open-ended action-adventure platform gameplay later seen in the 1987 title Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, 1997 title Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and most 2D Castlevania games following it.

The unique gameplay features from Vampire Killer were reintroduced to the Castlevania series with Castlevania II: Simon's Quest in 1987 and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night in 1997.

She returned to Broadway in 1997 as the lead in Neil Simon's Proposals.