Brother forgets Pompey ticket for his sibling
Oh, brother. Pompey fans Darren and Sean Jewell almost became a family at war after one accidentally forgot the other's Braga v Pompey match tickets.
Older brother Darren had been tasked with making the arrangements for the family trip to see Pompey's Uefa Cup clash and had everything planned with military precision – until he touched down at Porto airport and realised that he'd left his brother's two tickets behind.
Wife Jane spotted the crucial envelope on the couple's windowsill in Copnor and phoned her husband to tell him the bad news.
But the horrible prospect of missing Pompey's European adventure only dawned on Darren as he touched down in Portugal with son Brandon, seven, and family friends Michael, 13, and Callum Goldring, 11, in tow.
Darren, 39, said: 'I put the tickets on the windowsill in two separate envelopes, but for some reason I only picked up the one when we left.
'Maybe it was because we left at 2.30am and I wasn't thinking straight.
'When we landed, I had a voicemail from my wife Jane saying that we'd left two tickets at home.
'I felt terrible but told Sean and said that I'd give him my tickets and miss the game if it came to it. It was my fault, after all.'
Sean, 34, from Fratton, said: 'He wasn't the most popular bloke when he told me he'd forgotten our tickets, let's put it that way.
'He's the elder brother, so I left all of the arrangements to him. He'd done everything for us and remembered all of the flight tickets, but forgot the most important part: two tickets for me and my son Josh.
'I couldn't be too hard on him though – I think he felt pretty guilty when he realised what he'd done.'
While the 800 travelling Pompey fans soaked up the sunshine and downed a few pints of Super Bock in Braga's square a few hours before kick-off, the Jewell brothers were frantically trying to get hold of some extra tickets.
But after a flurry of telephone calls back home, Pompey's ticket office came to the rescue to arrange for some duplicates to be collected at the stadium.
A relieved Darren said: 'My wife Jane spoke to Lynn Wells at the club and she and Elaine Giles were brilliant. They sorted everything out for us.
'I can't thank them enough. It's certainly saved me a few quid, if nothing else – or I would have had to stand outside.
'The club have really got me out of a hole.'
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