On the pitch it has been a disastrous season at Tottenham Hotspur who have limped along with little to no direction with an ageing, stale and confidence shot side looking a pale shadow of previous years.
Supporters have been left deeply frustrated with performances which have never really risen beyond average. But usually they can at least rely on the notion that behind the scenes the club is heading in the right direction.
Yet it appears even that skill has deserted White Hart Lane as during the coronavirus pandemic the north London club have walked into one PR gaffe after another like Sideshow Bob stepping into a rake in The Simpsons.
There is much to admire about Spurs but they will not come out of this pandemic as one of the good guys. On the contrary they may be the antagonist in football's battle against the virus.
Newcastle United were being considered for the lead role as chief villains when they became the first Premier League side to start furloughing non-playing staff.
Spurs though soon followed in putting 550 non-playing staff on the government's job retention scheme, which involves British tax payers funding their wages up to 80 per cent. The club didn't even bother topping up the remaining 20 per cent.
Admittedly at a time when football clubs are not bringing in the majority of their revenue, looking for cost cutting measures is a sensible thing to do. But to put it on the taxpayer when the club owner Joe Lewis is worth well over £4billion was always going to open up a few wounds.
But chairman Daniel Levy soon found the salt to add to them when it was revealed at the same time he had also collected a £3million bonus for his role in delivering the club a new stadium (over half-a-year late).
Never mind that he also took a pay cut, the timing was abysmal. Reports also claimed that staff at the club were only informed of the furlough decision just 30 minutes before it was made public.
While the board were battling fury from supporters and critics outside the club, even the club's playing and coaching staff continue to draw criticism despite being nowhere near a football pitch.
Being nowhere near anything is something Spurs players have mastered quite well in recent times, except sadly when it matters most.
Jose Mourinho was caught flouting social distancing measures to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus when he held a training session with Tanguy Ndombele at Hadley Common earlier in April.
Davinson Sanchez and Ryan Sessegnon did likewise by going for a run alongside each other, as did Serge Aurier with a friend
Mourinho later admitted he was wrong to hold the training session, so you would expect the club from that moment would be hypersensitive about a similar incident occurring.
Spurs issued a reminder to their squad about respecting the social distancing rules following the breaches while they were also criticised by the government for 'endangering people's lives' by ignoring clear advice.
Except it happened again, maybe not under Mourinho's watch, but Aurier was again breaking measures as he and Moussa Sissoko were seen training together on Tuesday in a video uploaded and then deleted by the defender as they went for a run just two weeks after the initial breach.
Other reports stated how Levy was considering paying groundstaff to work on his private land, while even former manager Mauricio Pochettino was asked to take a pay cut. Pochettino continues to earn his £8.5million wage until he can find a new job despite being sacked in November.
In fairness to Tottenham, not everything they have done during this scandal has been a total disaster. The decision to furlough the club's playing staff has since been reversed although it does little for the club's image that they moved so quickly to implement it in the first place.
Also commendable has been allowing the NHS to use the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as a venue to carry out Coronavirus tests.
Changing rooms have been turned into Maternal Day Units and a Midwives Clinical Room, while the player's tunnel and referee's area have become consultation and scanning rooms.
But while not every team has been shown in its best light under the crisis, none have made as many mistakes as Tottenham have in just over the last month as they have become football's villains.
It seems they are incapable of avoiding stepping into rakes, and like Sideshow Bob the next one only ever seems a couple of steps away.