Should London Go It Alone for Euro 2020

Sticking with Tournaments for a while I have been thinking of late that Boris should look at tabling a Bid for the Uefa European Championships, I say Boris rather than the Government as I believe that London should look to hold the tournament alone, Obviously the tournaments are usually held by one or sometimes two countries but London probably has much better facilities than Austria and Switzerland combined. In order to hold the tournament you need 8 venues all of which must be over 30,000 in capacity.

London has (or Has Planned):

Wembley (Home of England) – 90,000
Emirates (Home of Arsenal) – 60,355
Twickenham (Home of Rugby) – 82,000
Olympic Stadium (2012) – 80,000
Northumberland Road (Proposed Tottenham Stadium) – 56,250
New West Ham (Proposed West Ham Stadium) – 50,000
Stamford Bridge (Home of Chelsea) – 42,055
The Valley (Home of Charlton) 29,111

A Total Seat across the 8 venues of 489,771

Compare this to Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland and you have

Vienna – 53,295
Klagenfurt – 31,957
Salzburg – 31,020
Innsbruck – 31,600
Basel – 42,000
Bern – 31,907
Geneva – 31,228
Zurich – 30,000

Just over half the total of seats at 283,007 in fact if you were to Host the tournament in London, Austria and Switzerland then only Vienna would be in the eight largest stadiums – And to be honest I am quite sure that as there will not need to be any investment in Stadiums or Infrastructure (Everything being upgraded in 2012) and the compact nature of the city with one of the most interconnected transport systems in the world (Being able to get around the entire area for the cost of a one day travel card.) I am sure that some money could be invested to give the Valley a capacity boost to take them over 30,000 (or if they get back into the premiership over 40,000)

I know that it is not normally a single city that hosts the tournament but London has got a larger population than Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland all of which have hosted the tournament, and have a larger population than Scotland and Ireland combined who have prepared a joint bid.