In April two officials, Paolo Tagliavento and Andrea Gervasoni, had to be suspended for mishandling high-profile fixtures.
Petraeus, who currently works for New York investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co as a consultant, pleaded guilty in March to the misdemeanour charge of mishandling classified materials.
English football has long had a reputation for mishandling unusual attacking talent but in recent years it has also shown an ability to mistreat the more meat-and-potatoes centre-forward.
Petraeus pleaded guilty in March in a federal court in Charlotte, North Carolina, to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information.
An elite British soldier of Ukrainian descent, who resigned to train Kiev's forces, recently told the Sunday Times that six in 10 Ukrainian casualties were caused by friendly fire or mishandling of weapons.
Meanwhile, 90 schools in 35 states are under investigation by the federal Department of Education for mishandling cases of sexual violence.Rape and sexual assault in America have declined sharply since the mid-1990s, to 1.1 per 1,000 women per year (see chart).
Yet both countries are at risk of dangerously mishandling this exercise in carefully calibrating their dealings with each other.China's demonstration of military might and authoritarian muscle on October 1st, its national day, was one recent example of how its judgment can go awry.
The far-right National Front, under the 81-year-old Jean-Marie Le Pen, gained a surprisingly high 12%.The primate of the Catholic church in Ireland, Sean Brady, has apologised for his role in mishandling a child-abuse scandal in 1975 where two boys were sworn to secrecy and information was kept from the police.
Central bankers and other regulators bear responsibility too, for mishandling the crisis, for failing to keep economic imbalances in check and for failing to exercise proper oversight of financial institutions.The regulators' most dramatic error was to let Lehman Brothers go bankrupt.
Not to be left out of this legal free-for-all, Enron's employees are suing the trustees of their pension plan, which invested in Enron shares, for mishandling their investments.
Its government, looking feeble after mishandling massacres of hundreds of Muslims in the western state of Gujarat, is under increasing pressure to act.
