Power Ranking the Premier League's Best Managers on Their Touchline Coats

As the British summer turns into nine months of British winter, it will soon be time for Premier League managers to start adding extra layers on the touchline while they bark orders at their subjects.

Now it's time to answer the burning question on everyone's lips: Who has the best touchline coat? 

Here's B/R's Premier League managerial outerwear power rankings, which only includes the bosses who wear suits for the majority of games.

Those who subscribe to the Tony Pulis school of tracksuits and baseball caps are not worthy of this sartorial countdown…

10. Arsene Wenger

Arsene Wenger's contribution to the canon of touchline coats is the same as his contribution to signing high-profile, box-office players: A bit embarrassing.

His ridiculous puffa jacket appears to be at least two sizes too big and gives the appearance of a giant caterpillar suffocating in a bin bag.

When the internet's finest Photoshoppers are openly mocking your jacket, it's time to splash out on a new look (but given Wenger's attitude to spending, don't hold your breath).  

9. Roberto Martinez

Roberto Martinez is utterly inoffensive in his woollen touchline jacket, which he frequently teams with a nice sensible V-neck jumper. 

This season, hopefully he will avoid the training jacket route taken by Goodison Park predecessor David Moyes. 

8. Mark Hughes

After the tracksuit and baseball cap combos of his Stoke predecessor, the only way is up for Mark Hughes' winter wardrobe. 

The former Manchester United striker seems to hold off wearing any kind of outerwear until the very coldest of weather, but when he does, it tends to be either a long trenchcoat or this smart black jacket.

Hughes just about pulls it off, although there's an air of "middle manager from a provincial carpet company trying to look cool" about it. 

7. Mauricio Pochettino

As a well-groomed Argentinean who spent several years in Paris, one would expect Mauricio Pochettino to have some sartorial sense during the winter months.

He occasionally wears a passable thick black overcoat—such as the one he sported when Chelsea visited St Mary's in March—but he lets himself down with this.

Skinny jeans and a training jacket, Mauricio? Bad tekkers. 

6. Paolo Di Canio

As a manager who doesn't allow his players to eat mayonnaise, use mobile phones, drink Coke with ice or have any fun at all, Paolo Di Canio is clearly quite fastidious. 

The fiery Italian is usually well dressed, although his occasional lapses with dodgy jumpers and horrendous jackets let the side down. 

Last season at Swindon, the fiery Italian tended to wear this military-inspired green jacket, perhaps reflecting his soldier-like mentality. 

5. Alan Pardew

Alan Pardew has been known to take the dreaded Pulis route of adopting sportswear in the dugout, but most of the time he wears a formal black overcoat, like the one seen here left at St Mary's last season. 

4. Brendan Rodgers

Plenty of embarrassing things come out of Brendan Rodgers' mouth, but at least he isn't letting himself down in the coat department. 

Last season, the Liverpool boss wore a natty dark green Hugo Boss number. He's pictured above wearing it at White Hart Lane, perhaps thinking about the names in those envelopes.  

Rodgers also rocked a nice black padded jacket during some Europa League games last season. 

Coat weather hasn't arrived yet this season, but if he wears his hideous Warrior Sports training ground jacket on the touchline, he'll plummet down these rankings. 

3. Michael Laudrup

Michael Laudrup was pretty stylish on the field in his Barcelona and Real Madrid days, and this is a quality he has transposed to his managerial wardrobe. 

With his casual open-neck shirts and scarves that look like they cost more than a Swansea season ticket, the great Dane is a commanding presence on the touchline, particularly in the clean lines of his overcoat. 

It's a look Steve Bruce couldn't pull off. 

2. Jose Mourinho

Without Jose Mourinho, this extraneous analysis of touchline fashion may not even exist. 

During his first spell at Chelsea, his long raincoat was indisputably iconic. If you think that is too strong a term to describe a piece of clothing, then consider the fact that it now belongs in the Chelsea FC museum.

Seriously, the museum. 

Since his favourite coat has been preserved for the ages, Mou has opted for a number of different styles, most notably the hooded duffel jacket he wore last winter while aggravating Real Madrid fans.  

1. Andre Villas-Boas

What is it with Portuguese managers? Andre Villas-Boas could go and live feral in the woods for six weeks and he would still come out looking like a male model.

It may be controversial to rank the Tottenham manager's outerwear over his former mentor, but the form-fitting trenchcoats he teams with his exceptionally well-tailored suits are just too darn classy.

Here he is at White Hart Lane last November making Sam Allardyce look like absolute garbage. 

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