Lanre Oyebanjo

He assisted Murray's equalising goal in the 67th minute with a cross, and Livermore praised his performance by saying his return helped improve the team.

Olanrewaju Olusegun Mark Bamidele "Lanre" Oyebanjo (born 27 April 1990) is a professional footballer who last played as a defender for club Welling United.

He has played in the Football League for York City and Crawley Town.

He joined the West Ham United youth system at the age of 10 and while a ball boy for a first-team match in 2004 entered the pitch to retrieve a second ball, while play went on around him.

He was released by West Ham aged 16 when he has not offered a scholarship.

Oyebanjo started his career with West Ham United's youth system and after being released joined Waltham Forest in 2006.

Oyebanjo started his senior career with Isthmian League Division One North club Waltham Forest in 2006 while studying for his A-levels.

Aged 16 he became one of the youngest players in Waltham Forest's history, making his debut in a 2–0 home defeat to Barking in the Essex Senior Cup on 7 November 2006.

He made 21 appearances for Waltham Forest in the 2006–07 season before joining Brentford as a member of their youth system.

He spent one season with the Isthmian League Division One North club before joining League Two team Brentford in 2007.

He progressed into Brentford's first-team squad and was an unused substitute in their 2–0 defeat at home to Luton Town on 27 November 2007.

However, he finished 2007–08 without making any appearances for Brentford.

Having not made any first-team appearances for Brentford, Oyebanjo dropped into the Conference Premier with Histon in 2008.

Following a trial, Oyebanjo signed for Conference Premier club Histon on a short-term contract on 30 July 2008 to provide cover for Craig Pope.

He made his debut as a 72nd-minute substitute for Pope in Histon's 1–0 defeat away to Mansfield Town on 12 August 2008, having been on the bench for their opening match of 2008–09.

He started the following match, a 1–1 draw away to York City on 16 August 2008, and later that month signed a new two-year contract with Histon.

Having established himself as a regular starter, Oyebanjo was named the Conference Premier Player of the Month for October 2008.

His first goal for Histon came with a 90th-minute winner in a 1–0 victory at home to Woking on 6 December 2008 with an 18-yard shot.

He played in all five of Histon's 2008–09 FA Cup matches, with the club reaching the third round of the competition for the first time in its history, when the team were beaten 2–1 at home to Championship team Swansea City on 13 January 2009.

Oyebanjo played in both of Histon's play-off matches against Torquay United in May 2009, which the team lost 2–1 on aggregate.

His first season with Histon saw him make 49 appearances and score one goal.

Oyebanjo started the 2009–10 opener, a 3–0 victory away to Gateshead on 8 August 2009, and remained in the team before picking up a knee injury during a 2–0 home win over Salisbury City on 22 August.

His absence was extended after undergoing surgery on his knee in September 2009, with his return to the team coming after starting Histon's 5–2 home win over Forest Green Rovers on 17 October.

Oyebanjo went on a one-week trial with Championship outfit Peterborough United in October 2009 and this included playing in a friendly against Histon.

Histon chairman Tony Roach later commented that he believed the player would leave the club in the January 2010 transfer window for a Football League club.

He eventually stayed with Histon, although his loss of form since his Peterborough trial was attributed by manager Alan Lewer to Oyebanjo's agent, claiming he was unsettling the player.

A hamstring injury sustained during a 1–0 win away to Ebbsfleet United on 9 February 2010 kept him out of the team for over two weeks before returning as a 65th-minute substitute in a 3–0 defeat to Kidderminster Harriers on 27 February.

Oyebanjo finished the season with 29 appearances and one goal.

He was out of contract with Histon in the summer of 2010, but, following a spell training with League Two team Wycombe Wanderers, stayed on with the club having decided to start a university course in the autumn.

A hamstring injury kept him out of the team for over four weeks before making his return in a 1–1 draw away to Fleetwood Town on 2 October 2010.

A calf injury sustained in training kept him out of a match against Luton and his return came in a 2–1 home defeat to Bath City on 25 November 2010.

He helped Histon to the play-off semi-final in his first season, but after their relegation to the Conference South in 2011 he remained in the Conference Premier with York City.

Oyebanjo started the 2011–12 opener, a 3–1 home win against Barrow, before scoring his first goal of the season with an 87th-minute equaliser from a 25-yard free kick in a 1–1 draw at home with Eastbourne Borough, which was David Livermore's first match as manager.

After finishing the season with 40 appearances and two goals he was offered a new contract by the club in May 2011.

Despite their relegation to the Conference South he considered staying with the club, being quoted as saying: "I've just got to weigh up my options as I'm not too sure what I want to do at the current time".

Oyebanjo scored York's second goal in their 2012 FA Trophy Final victory and then played in the 2012 Conference Premier play-off final, which the team won to earn promotion to League Two.

Having been voted York's Clubman of the Year for the 2013–14 season, he signed for League One team Crawley Town in 2014.

They were relegated to League Two in 2014–15, and Oyebanjo was released a year later.

He returned to York in 2016, who were newly relegated to the National League, before being released a year later.

Oyebanjo was born in Hackney, London to a Nigerian father and an Irish mother.