LONDON — Alex Ferguson pulled a woolly hat around his ruddy face. Rafael Benitez stood in a snowstorm in a suit that did not fit. The usually suave André Villas-Boas resorted to covering his legs with a grandpa-by-the-fire-style blanket.

Then there was Arsène Wenger. In the bitter cold and swirling snow at a recent Arsenal game, Wenger encased himself in what has unfortunately become his signature garment: a fluffy, puffy, oddly elongated, sausagelike parka that surely keeps him warm, but that also makes him look like a caterpillar in a sleeping bag.

These are the men of England’s Premier League, coaches stalking the sideline in the most scrutinized sport in the world, in a country where abysmal weather can lead to strange adventures in improvised fashion. But even at the best of times soccer coaches here are an aggressively unstylish bunch, with wardrobes that speak less of Savile Row than of the remainder rack on the Island of Misfit Clothes.

“The top clubs all have designers throwing beautiful clothes at them and the whole world watching them, and still so many of them manage to look cheap and nasty,” said Dan Rookwood, style director at Men’s Health U.K. “They look like middle-management insurance salesmen, not multimillionaire leaders of men.”