Guiseley shocked their UniBond rivals Farsley Celtic with a 4-0 beating at Throstle Nest last night to go through to the semi-finals of the West Riding County Cup.

Home side Farsley are in front of their near neighbours in the race for promotion from the UniBond Premier and were slight favourites going into the tie.

But Guiseley underlined that derby games are notoriously unpredictable by gaining a deserved victory.

Former Bantam Mark Stuart opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 31st minute after being brought down. He stroked the spot-kick past Tom Morgan

Four minutes later former Celt Stephen Ball and Simon Parke combined well to set up Dave Henry for Guiseley's second.

Left back Ball provided the perfect cross for Parke to add the third with a good header five minutes after the break and the contest was ended just after the hour when Parke rifled the ball into the roof of the net to convert Kieron O'Brien's centre.

"You have to be philosophical about these things, we let three goals in through not good defending, but take nothing away from Guiseley," said Celts manager Lee Sinnott.

"We have conceded three penalties in two games. It is a fickle game. You find yourself in situations like this from time to time. We are getting crucified for every mistake we make at the minute.

"All credit to Guiseley, they were the better side in the second half and I wish them well in the semi-finals."

Guiseley manager Neil Parsley was a very happy man after the game and was looking forward to next week's draw for the last four.

"It was a very good result for us, the two goals in the first half changed it," he said. "They were against the run of play to be fair but I felt in the second half we dominated the game. So, yes, we were fortunate to go 2-0 up but we took advantage of that."

His opposite number had no problem with that statement. "If Neil has said that then I would agree. I said to the players at half-time that if you could take the two goals out of it there was no difference between the sides but Guiseley were even more clinical in the second half."