Isn't that figure distorted by how many 'fans' were arrested after the Sunderland, the majority of whom the police confirmed had not even attended the match?
That's what i was thinking... I think 130 got pinched that day so that would leave us mid-table at the 45 mark...
The data seems to include 29 arrests from the Sunderland match.
[Newcastle United recorded the highest number of arrests with 175 during the 2012-13 Premier League season - 114 of these being for violent disorder. Earlier this year football supporters clashed with police resulting in 29 arrests after a match between Newcastle and Sunderland in which Newcastle lost 3-0. The violence which included a fan punching a police horse was described by one officer as "the worst rioting I have seen in the city centre in decades."]
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/oct/09/football-related-arrests-by-club-offence