He does not invent the truth. He just refuses to destroy the record.
Every verdict on this site is signed by one person: Bong Weng — archivist, verdict issuer, and the man who answers for every number below. Not a journalist. Not a pundit. An archivist.
Who he is
BONG WENG
The Archivist
Bong Weng started out building web pages in the div-and-css era — back when nobody had even invented the word “frontend”, and shipping a page meant making it survive Internet Explorer 6. Today he works with data and code by day and keeps this archive open at night. He built this site himself: the database, the verification, the verdicts.
His football education did not start in a stadium. In 1996 he was ten years old, and the deepest football image he owned was a blur: Roberto Baggio walking away from that missed penalty in 1994, too young to understand what it meant. What actually let him into the football world was a game — FSM97, a football manager whose save file begins in the 1996/97 season. He still plays it today, an hour or two at a time.
That game handed him memories he never lived. He knows the name of Polish former international Marek Citko — because in 1996, Citko's attribute rating in that game was 85: higher than Raúl, higher than Del Piero. If you never played that game, you have no idea who Citko is. That is why BallFact exists. Someone has to leave a channel open, so the people coming after us can still touch the football world that came before — its numbers, its stubbornness, its sentiment, its lives.
What this archive stands on
Retired players only. This archive opens case files on retired players. The current superstars are being written by their own era in real time — they do not need BallFact. The retired ones were all chasing wind once; now they look back at their younger selves with wrinkles and blunter eyes. That weight is our subject.
Numbers first, always. You say Cristiano Ronaldo is better than Messi? Save the speech — put the numbers on the table and compare. Narrow it to 2010, narrow it to 2026: still the numbers. The archive's job is to build the ruler those numbers get measured with.
Two angers fuel the digging. Fan irrationality — a goal makes a god, a defeat makes a devil. And the obsession with the present that forgets what veterans built. Every cold case reopened here is an answer to one of those two.
AI is disclosed, verdicts are human. This site uses AI tools. Every number is checked by a person, and every verdict is signed by one — the signature on this page. Corrections carry his name too.
Don't tell me the legend. Hand over the ledger.
Signed verdicts to date
| Case | Subject | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| 003 | Shearer 1996 — the record move “killed his form” | BUSTED |
| 004 | Zidane 2006 — the final season audit | CONFIRMED |
| 005 | Ronaldo 1998 — the night of the final | DISPUTED |
Every dossier carries his signature, its sources, its formula, and its confidence grade. If he gets a number wrong, the correction is published under his name, in the same font size. That is the deal.
Challenge the archive
Challenges with a primary source get answered. Disagreement with a verdict is welcome — bring evidence, and the archive improves; bring folklore, and it gets stamped L3. The portrait on this file is an AI-generated likeness — the real photo is still being sorted; the archive's stance does not change: numbers stay numbers, faces stay faces.
Email: [email protected] · Quote format: “BallFact Case 00X · [verdict]” — quoting is encouraged, the signature travels with it.
“Numbers don't talk. But they remember.”