“Baby, you understand me now?
If sometimes you see that I’m mad
Don’tcha know that no one alive can always be an angel?
When everything goes wrong, you see some bad
But oh, I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood”
When Nina Simone sang those lyrics from her legendary hit “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” it’s almost like she wrote those lyrics for athletes that people took the wrong impression from. One of those players is French forward Nicolas Anelka.