It's my football Yaaa.

Christmas is traditionally a time of suicide, murder or at least radical self-reassessment. Not least in the realm of the architectural websites. For that terrific website a-matter is kaput. It was edited by Michaela Busenkell in Munich and managed by Dorothea Scheidl-Nennemann from Waldshut, a town near Zurich and the home of sponsor furniture-maker Sedus.

Everyone is keeping very mum about this abrupt pulling of the plug despite my best efforts on the phone to Germany. Sounded to me like a new marketing director being macho. And indeed the company recently appointed a new sales director--and a marketing director, according to Dorothea Scheidl to whom I spoke, bewildered, on your behalf. She makes no such connection and anyway seems to have been told to keep stumm: 'I can't say any more: we are very unhappy, it was our baby and our concept but it was a company decision not to invest any more'. Whatever, this was one of the best architectural websites going, Busenkell away over there in Munich has been sacked and Sedus now refuses to allow the site to continue with another sponsor, so strong, apparently, is the a-matter brand. It's my football and I'm taking it home. So there.