This County Has Just Been Described As “The North Korea Of Ireland”

Take that, Garden County.

If you have a passing interest in football, you'll know that Bray Wanderers have been having some financial troubles recently.

Players have gone unpaid and been told to seek other clubs and now The Seagulls have released what is possibly our favourite press release of all time.

Bray Wanderers - "Wicklow County has unfortunately now attained the accolade of being the North Korea of Ireland for business" pic.twitter.com/jCCRSgy8q6
— Extratime.ie (@ExtratimeNews) July 27, 2017

"Wicklow County has unfortunately now attained the accolade of being the North Korea of Ireland for business."

People have been expressing disbelief and well, sheer bafflement at the statment.

"The Nortg Korea of Ireland" ... "Ideally we'd bring in Conor McGregor for a quote"#GreatestLeagueInTheWorld pic.twitter.com/1puMJnPjWq
— Mark McCadden (@markmccadden) July 27, 2017

Bray Wanderers have released a statement Donald Trump would be proud of.... #GreatestLeagueInTheWorld pic.twitter.com/Vn5RsYokGr
— Gareth Penrose (@garethpenrose) July 27, 2017

The football revolution will start in Bray after they defeat North Korea. The latest statement from Bray is astonishing. pic.twitter.com/waDPrbon1d
— Darren Cleary (@RadioCleary) July 27, 2017

THAT STATEMENT FROM BRAY WANDERERS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ????????????????
— Jacopo Ghirardon (@Ghirarz) July 27, 2017

Bray Wanderers made a statement comparing Wicklow to North Korea and that probably wasn't even the highlight of it #greatestleagueintheworld
— Conor Philpott (@cphilpott95) July 27, 2017

Insert Conor McGregor quote here. Click here to read the full madcap statement.