Man receiving fine follows core characters from Partick Thistle (9)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

HE (that man) containing (receiving) OK (fine, as an adjective = acceptable), after the inner letters from [p] ARTIC [k]. Those who don’t follow Scottish football might like to know that Partick Thistle is the name of a Glasgow football club. Globe artichoke: a vegetable, botanically a variety of thistle.