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🧩 BND Motif Index · M831

The asterisk

A victory, a title or a record is said to be tainted by cheating and to deserve an asterisk, however its holders insist it was earned.

πŸ“œ PlotsπŸ—‚οΈ Accountability

⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.

A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.

πŸͺœ Its family

what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it

πŸ”— goes with: 🧩 Sports

πŸ—£οΈ In so many words

the words that carry it

πŸ’¬ the tellers' own words: β€œMan City titles 'absolutely not' tainted” β€œrejected suggestions the club’s achievements have been tainted”

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)

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claims many people posted in their own words

  • 2026-10-10 β€œManchester City manager Enzo Maresca claims the club's titles are 'absolutely not' tainted by the financial regulation breaches.”

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