The game Competition was played Competition between Arsenal , champions of the 1990–91 Football League Competition and Tottenham Hotspur , who beat Competition Nottingham Forest to win Getting the 1991 FA Cup Competition Final Competition .

This was Arsenal 's twelfth Charity Shield Competition appearance and Tottenham Hotspur 's sixth .

The victory also allowed Preventing_or_letting them to enter Participation the following season 's Champions League competition ( having failed Confronting_problem to qualify for it by their league finishing position ) at the expense of London rivals Tottenham Hotspur , who would otherwise have entered Participation the competition Competition having finished Process_end fourth in the Premier League .