When it comes to losing, I’m very much from the Vince Lombardi school: ‘Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser.’

Like the legendary NFL coach, I love winning and hate losing.

I mean, I really REALLY hate losing. At anything.

It eats away at my soul like a giant, agitated parasite infesting my internal organs.

Even being beaten by my 5-year-old daughter at Tiddlywinks can cause me sleepless nights.

But I’m also a fair loser.

I accept defeat, however dreadful it always feels.

Not wanting to lose is a good thing.

Refusing to admit you’ve lost, however, is an absurd thing.

In the wee hours of November 9, Hillary phoned Donald Trump to concede the presidential election. She told Trump: ‘We must accept this result and then look to the future.’ Then she put the phone down and cried. She didn't face the cameras until later

Which brings me to Hillary Clinton, now rapidly emerging as one of the worst sore losers of all time.

Let’s cast our minds back to the early hours of Wednesday, November 9 when Hillary phoned Donald Trump to concede the presidential election.

It wasn’t an equivocal kinda concession.

It was a ‘Congratulations, you won, I lost’ kinda concession.

No ifs, no buts, no ‘I need time to think this over…’

Hillary conceded defeat, period.

She told Trump: ‘We must accept this result and then look to the future.’

Then she put the phone down and started wailing.

We know this because friends revealed she was ‘too distraught’ to come out and speak to her supporters later that night, despite the fact they’d been waiting up for her to so.

She was ‘too distraught’ to go speak to her supporters later that night at the Javits Center, pictured, despite the fact they’d been waiting up for her to so

Her torrent of tears doesn’t particularly bother me, though I like to think potential presidents are made of slightly tougher stuff. Can you imagine Trump breaking down and sobbing for hours on end, if he’d lost?

Nor did it particularly surprise me when Hillary sat back and let her enraged supporters march around with their protest placards mocking and abusing Trump, and burning and hanging effigies of him in the streets.

She could have stopped it with a few firm words, in the spirit of Michele Obama’s ‘When they go low, we go high’ entreaty.

But Hillary preferred to say nothing, as she usually does about the grubbier, nastier end of her political operations.

Now she's supporting Jill Stein’s attempt to initiate recounts in three swing states, even though there’s no actual evidence that any of these votes were rigged

No, what really got my goat was her decision to publicly support Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s legal attempt to initiate recounts in three swing states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Trump won them all by 22,500, 68,000 and 10,700 votes respectively.

Each of those leads is comfortably higher than the greatest number of votes ever overcome in a US presidential election recount.

Let’s be very clear here: there’s no actual evidence that any of these votes were fraudulently rigged in any way whatsoever.

President Obama certainly doesn’t think so.

A senior administration official said in a statement that the government didn’t observe ANY increased level of malicious cyber activity aimed at disrupting the election on election day.

Even Hillary’s own campaign lawyer, Mark Elias, admitted on Saturday they had found nothing suspicious about the three results in question and didn’t expect them to be overturned.

‘We had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology,’ Elias wrote in a blog post. ‘But now that a recount has been initiated, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides.’

He added: ‘We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states – Michigan - well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount.’

In other words, Hillary and her team all know this is all a completely pointless, futile exercise.

Or as Trump put it: ‘A sad waste of money.’

What makes Hillary’s manoeuvre all the more hypocritical is what she repeatedly said about this very issue during her campaign.

As Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway reminded us on yesterday’s Meet The Press: ‘After asking Mr Trump and his team a million times on the trail, “Will he accept the election results?” it turns out Team Hillary and their new BFF Jill Stein can’t accept reality. It’s confounding…and disappointing.’

It’s worse than that.

It’s a disgraceful act, the very worst kind of political opportunism.

Stein’s motivation for this farce seems pretty clear to most Washington cynics; she’s raking in millions of dollars in donations from Clinton supporters desperate to overturn the election result, and securing vital contact details from liberal activists in the process.

It’s also a chance for a no-hoper candidate who received a derisory 1% of the popular vote to take centre stage for once and boost her own personal profile.

Stein’s petition to force the recounts focuses on concerns that ‘foreign actors’ might have copied the state’s voter registration database and then filed bogus absentee ballots.

But there is zero evidence to support this theory.

Hillary is leaping on the recount bandwagon, sensing one tiny chance to not be confined to the dustbin of political history as the candidate who lost to the host of Celebrity Apprentice. It’s pathetic and shows no class and no appreciation of the importance of America's presidential candidates showing grace and dignity in defeat

Yet this hasn’t stopped Hillary Clinton drying her tears long enough to leap desperately onto the recount bandwagon, sensing one last tiny chance to not be confined to the dustbin of political history as the candidate who lost the White House to the host of Celebrity Apprentice.

It’s pathetic and will achieve nothing more than making America look like the very kind of dodgy banana republic it loves to berate.

It’s also just so utterly demeaning for Hillary on a personal level.

Why on earth does she want to prolong her humiliation even longer, and be confirmed as a loser all over again when the results inevitably come back again for Trump, if the recounts go ahead?

It shows no class and no appreciation of the importance to the United States of its presidential candidates showing grace and dignity in defeat.

(And yes, if Trump had lost and behaved like this, I would have said exactly the same thing).

When Stein launched her shameless stunt, Hillary should have made it absolutely clear she still accepts the election result, wants nothing to do with any baseless recount, and urged her howling supporters to do the same.

Instead, she picked up all the toys she threw out of her stroller at 2am on November 9, and has now promptly thrown them up in the air again.

‘What a pack of sore losers,’ blasted Kellyanne Conway.