6’2” 11st.8lb.
b. Whitefield 11 November 1989
 

Debut 13 August 2011 (21y 275d) Final Game 29 November 2011 (22y 18d)
CAREER: King David Junior School;Phillips HS (Manchester);Macclesfield Town Mar’07 (1+11-1);Blackburn Rovers Jan’09 (£250,000);Blackpool Mar’09 (loan)[2+3-1];Oldham Athletic Aug’09 (loan)[6+6-1];Motherwell Aug’10-Dec’10 (loan)[15+3-10];Aberdeen Jan’11 (loan)[10+5-2]:Sheffield United Aug’12[28-11];Reading Jan’13 (£1,500,000)[51+52-18];Derby County Jan’16 (£2,500,000)[7 + 16-1];Maccabi Tel Aviv Aug'17-Jun'17 (loan);Sporting Gijon (Spain) Aug'18 (loan).
SQUAD NUMBER 22 Aug'11.

PL         0 + 1 app                                               11 ns
FAC                                                                       1 ns
FLC      2 apps        - 2 wdn
Total   2 + 1 apps  - 2 wdn  + 6m -55m                12 ns
LC  3 apps  1 gl  - 1 wdn  1 4m
Penalty record (SO)  T 1 Sc 1
 

A trainee under Paul Ince at Macclesfield, he commenced trials with the Rovers soon after his manager moved to the club. When Ince was dismissed in December it appeared that the move agreed for the January transfer window might be off but Sam Allardyce approved it. He made his first team debut in a friendly against Dundee United on 8 August 2009. Blackman’s mother was Jewish and this qualified him to represent England at the 2005 Maccabiah Games. He was recalled to Ewood in 2011 and made his first team debut but was scarcely involved with the first team. When he left for Sheffield United he struck a good scoring spell which brought him a high value transfer move to Reading. Further success produced a move to Derby but he never settled there and spent seasons on loan in Israel and Spain. His father was from Barbados and his maternal grandparents were from the Netherlands and Poland. To add to his options of representative football his Jewish religion also made him eligible for Israel.