What Lewis Hamilton does not need are instructions on how to be a role model from Joey Barton.

The Queens Park Rangers footballer led the charge on Twitter the morning after the night when Lewis Hamilton won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. (By the way, Hamilton did not just win it — he won by a country mile, so the 209,000 people who picked up their phones to vote for the Mercedes driver thought he was worth the top prize in what is essentially a popularity contest.)

But the sore losers lost no time. An entire golfing fraternity was affronted that Rory McIlroy was beaten into second place. Ian Poulter, who comes from around the corner in Hertfordshire, came up with: “@BBCSPOTY