When his day job was put on pause, Hal Robson-Kanu turned his attention to his other occupation where business is booming.
'It's been a really busy period,' the West Brom striker, 31, tells Sportsmail. 'We have experienced extremely strong growth.'
The business in question is Robson-Kanu's drinks company, which makes health-boosting shots using the raw roots of turmeric, the flowering plant native to Asia.
West Brom's Hal Robson-Kanu drinks one of the turmeric shots his company produces
Robson-Kanu calls turmeric his 'secret weapon' and says it saved his career.